Name and Draw: An Exploration of Communicating Traditional Knowledge in the Work of Abel Rodríguez
Indigenous peoples possess a close and complex relationship with their surroundings and have gathered from their traditions and life experiences invaluable and extensive knowledge of a wide range of academic research areas.
What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise
Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.
Sporting World, Worlding Sport
Sport is world-forming. It makes a world apart, a field of actions and operations that are organised according to a set of rules peculiar to itself, despite the fact that they overlap with actions and operations in the real, or nonsporting world.
Vitality and Obsolescence in the Theatre of the Humanities: Or, #SandraBland and Hamlet
This essay takes up the Humanities Futures project’s call to critically assess "vital" areas of study in the Humanities in relationship to threats of so-called "obsolescence" coming from interdisciplines. Troubling the habitual distinction between vitality and obsolescence prevalent in the economized neoliberal university, the essay thinks through the dymanics of call and response, or the hail and the turn, in several key "texts" in relationship to recent cases of police brutalization of people of color in the U.S.
Digital Research in Dance Studies: Emerging Trends in a Still-Emerging Field
Contemporary dance scholarship is experiencing an unprecedented expansion in tandem with an explosion of dance documentation.
Apocalyptic Politics: On the Permanence and Transformations of a Symbolic Complex
What kind of a modern political science could adequately address the enormous challenges of phenomena as complex as religious terror?
What it Means to be Non-Human: Feminism, Science, and Molecular Politics
Pauses, Turns, and a Few Hesitations Several years ago, while preparing to split nearly confluent plates of immortalized mouse hypothalamic…
Theater, Theory, Practice
Based on the recent experience of instituting a program in theater, dance, and media at Harvard, I propose an approach of teaching the theory and practice of theater that takes into account the long history of anti-theatrical thought.
Feminist Articulations: Gender and Sexuality in a New Feminist Landscape
This paper explores some current contexts of ‘feminist articulation’ in a globalised and media-saturated world. I track some of the changing fates of feminist discourse within and outside the academy in Europe (particularly the UK), with a focus on generational tensions, the relationship between sexuality and gender, and the subject of feminism.
Extreme Science: Towards Global Slavic Humanities
The 20th century cultural and political history of Russia as well as its recent political development consistently represent the most radical manifestations and, subsequently, the ultimate test of most progressive Western theories and ideologies; wherein corresponding intellectual and political practices appear as early and extreme realizations of modernity’s potentialities; potentialities that may become actual at any given moment in any given region of the world. Thus, global Slavic Studies might develop as an area of humanities exploring extreme versions and scenarios of modernity.
“Racing” in “Place”: Dance Studies and the Academy
A theoretical and practical intervention interrogating issues of institutional/cultural hegemony in the dance/research/performance complex.
Love and Other Injustices: On Indifference to Difference
When we are called upon to defend the humanities—not from the productive mutual encroachments of consensual interdisciplinarity, but say, against…
